The Sonoma State Rotaractors organized a peace celebration that involved planting two significant peace trees in their campus courtyard. These trees originated from seeds of a tree that endured the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Alongside the Hiroshima tree, Fred Ptucha, a Rotarian and founder of the Veterans for Peace organization from the Santa Rosa East-West Rotary, supervised the installation of a Peace Pole engraved with the message, “May Peace Prevail on Earth,” in eight different languages. This marked the campus’s inaugural Peace Ceremony, attracting over 100 students, faculty, and community members.
May Peace Prevail on Earth
